How can I change the color of a characters clothing?

[inhalingmadness]

I saw this amv where the editor changed the color of the characters clothes. So how would I be able do this and which software would be the best to do this. I was thinking it would be either photoshop or adobe after effects. For example at 0:37 the girl's dress is red but in the orginally anime (Panty and stocking with garterbelt) the dress was actually blue and white. So does anybody know how to do this because I would really like to do this effect

Here is the video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSu7oveH-1Y[url][/url]

[CeliaPhantomhive]

You could definitely render your raw footage out in a PNG sequence and Photoshop each frame if you're comfortable with that.

You can also mask out what you want to change colors, throw it on a layer that's on top of the original track, and go color effect crazy on it to make it look how you want. That's possible in Vegas Pro and After Effects (not sure about other video editing programs, I only have used those 2 D:)

[Takako-Jin]

Many colour grading programs come with great tools to swap colours. Don't expect them to be perfect though. You may get a weird pixelated mess. ^^

[NoglasticNinja]

In this particular effect, there was no pre-existing hue (the top of the stockings matched the skin color of... well... Stocking) in neither the dress nor the thigh-highs, so this wasn't a simple hue shift or color isolation; it was a straight up rotoscope.
Because of how short the clip was (5-10 frames), it was most likely ported into Photoshop, filled in with the paint bucket tool, then put back together in the video editing program with a color bleed effect to hide the aliasing caused by the paint bucket tool.